Welcome to InventNow.org!
Your World of Ideas, Imagination, and Invention
What do Skateboards, Velcro, Computers, Popsicles and Electric Guitars have in common? They are all inventions that came from the same place- minds of people just like you!
All inventions start as ideas. InventNow.org is the place to create and explore a world of ideas that just might inspire the world’s next great inventor- YOU!
Anything is Possible. Keep Thinking.
Instructions- World Creation
Build your world around what excites you!!
Find your favorite Zones on the right side of the screen and add them to your world. You can move them around or remove them at any time.
Then start exploring! Visit your Zones to uncover all the fantastic games, activities and ideas there to inspire your own thoughts and inventions. Then test yourself with the Inventor’s Challenges or send in something that you thought of yourself!
Watch what happens to your world when you complete an activity, and watch your points grow for doing almost anything on the site!
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Design Zone
Do you love putting your creative talents to paper, canvas, or a computer screen? Maybe you are more of a fashion diva? Or an architect-in- training? The Design Zone is where you can explore and develop your creativity. From Leonardo DaVinci to J. Lo, creative people have always combined art and technology. You can do it too!
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Design a Car
Design a Toy
Arrange A Room
Entertainment Zone
You'll be the star in the Entertainment Zone where you can learn how cartoons are made, how a TV works, who invented the radio, how the theater was born, and what kind of people it takes to make a video game, and much, much more! Start here and maybe we'll see you soon on the red carpet!
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Featured Activities:
Write a "Dreadful Act"
/entertainment/write_a_dreadful_act/
Musical Sketch Pad
/entertainment/musical_sketch_pad/
Make Your Own Music
/entertainment/make_your_own_music/
Environment Zone
As kids, we know that the world is going to be ours one day soon. With the activities here you can lots of ways to protect our planet. New inventions are needed everyday to make our homes, cars, schools and neighborhoods more engery efficient and less wasteful. Saving the planet. How cool is that?!
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Trash to Treasure Vend-o-Matic
/environment/trash_to_treasure_vendomatic/
Tree Ring Study
Beat the Heat
Investigation Zone
Are you a master detective? Does a day in the science lab sound like a walk in the park? Do you wonder how and why everything works the way it does? Then the Investigation Zone is for you! Explore, invent and discover all kinds of things. You aren't a mad scientist, you're just mad for science. Come play, invent, and discover here.
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The Magnetic Miracle
/investigation/the_magnetic_miracle/
Send a Mystery Code
/investigation/send_a_mystery_code/
The Bridge Challenge
/investigation/the_bridge_challenge/
Space Zone
So you want to be an astronaut? Do you like looking at stars and wonder how far away they are? Then you'll love exploring the Space Zone. Discover exciting, out-of-this-world objects like meteors, comets, and mysterious black holes! Hunt for far-out galaxies and learn about our tiny planet and the future of space exploration. Get the start you need to be a pioneer of the final frontier!
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Featured Activities:
Telescopes from the Ground Up
/space/telescopes_from_the_ground_up/
Design A Parachute
Graduate from Space Academy
/space/graduate_from_space_academy/
Sports Zone
From the field to the rules to the equipment, there's a lot more to sports than just competing! The Sports Zone has some awesome online activities for you to experience. Soccer, basketball, football, baseball, hockey, rollerblading- we'll show you the ideas behind the games - and maybe help you invent some of your own.
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Featured Activities:
Reaction Time
Skydiving
Be Like Mike
